Saturday, November 26, 2016

Utórengés - Aftershock - 余震

Kedden kora reggel volt egy 7,4-es erősségű földrengés (természetesen angol link) Fukushima partjainál, amit Honshuu-n (a legnagyobb sziget) majdnem mindenütt lehetett érezni. Még itt mifelénk is, pedig ez a környék már elég messze van onnan. Kb. fél órára leállt a vonatközlekedés is odafent. Meg lett belőle cunami is, az első, amióta itt vagyok. Szerencsére ezúttal nem lett belőle baj. A linkelt cikkben van róla egy videó is, ahogy halad felfelé az egyik ottani folyón...There was a 7.4-magnitude earthquake
early in the morning on Tuesday off the shores of Fukushima, but it
could be experienced almost all over Honshuu (the main island). Even in
my neighborhood, even though it's quite far from there. For about half
an hour, the trains stopped in the northern parts. It also caused a
tsunami, the first one since I came here. Fortunately it didn't cause any damage this time. In the linked article there's a
video of it travelling up one of the rivers...今回は火曜日の早朝に福島の海岸に起きた震度7.4度の地震について書こうと思ったね。けっこう強かったね、本州のほぼ全体で感じられたし、30分ぐらい東北の電車も止まっちゃったし。私の家の近所もけっこう揺れたね。津波も発生したが、幸運のことに激しい損害がなかった。（ちなみにここに来てから初めての津波だった。）リンクの記事で津波が川で前進していく動画もあるよ…

So far this has been the strongest that I've experienced. And what
should I say... Being alone at home it was rather frightening...
However, even more frightening was that before that on Monday, there was
another quake (although much weaker), and on both occasions I woke up
1-2 minutes before they started. Almost as if I felt that it was
coming...

According to the news, it was an aftershock (!) of the great earthquake in 2011, about the 10th above a magnitude of 7, and about the 70th above 5. I was quote surprised at this, I'd never have thought that such a quake could be counted as an aftershock after 5 and a half years... Anyway, an expert said another similarly powerful one can be expected within the next week there. And looking at the recent stats, there had been about 10-15 1-3 magnitude quakes every day recently, and since Tuesday it's become more like 20 a day. So there's quite a good chance for it...

Many of you have asked me to write about Japan, how's my life here, what's happening to me, etc. That's why I've created this blog, here I'll try to share with all of you every important, unimportant, interesting and boring things that I see / hear / experience here.